unend

English

Etymology 1

From un- (prefix denoting reversal) +‎ end (verb).

Verb

unend (third-person singular simple present unends, present participle unending, simple past and past participle unended)

1. (transitive) To undo or reverse the end or ending of
   • 1996, Stephen David Ross, The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art:

     Rather, it interrupts every origin and end, every essence and form, unends every end.

   • 2009, William Penn, Love in The Time of Flowers:

     [...] it was more likely that Aunt Lily still was not surfeit of her 60's attire, ignored every clothes brokerage for it, still wore it to unend an era she had a deeply personal attachment to, for no other reason than that her newlywed days had also blossomed at that time.

   • 2016, Oral A. W. Thomas, Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics Within a Caribbean Context:

     Indeterminacy of texts and interpretation, that is, puncturing any tendency to lock texts and their interpretation into exactitude. The task of the hermeneute is to unend the interpretation as no interpretation is fixed.

Etymology 2

From un- (“lack of”) +‎ end (noun).

Noun

unend (countable and uncountable, plural unends)

1. (nonstandard) Absence or lack of ending; continuation; infinity
   • 2010, Alfred Colo, Laughing Matters:

     First halves of life are oft' spent spending—on / Unends of refuse, you seldom will use.

   • 2016, Vicky Glasgow, The Mage Emperor:

     She listened and listened to unend.

Anagrams

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